2013-10-30

Last tuesday I played a game of WH40k. We played 2 versus 2.I had little to say in the setup and was given a position with mytroops in a bad tactical spot.I played the Cadians-Imperial guard and my friend Tobias playedspace marines with aerial support.My opponents played both death corps with a lot of tank-supportand light artillery.The setup was simple. I had a ruined town with space marinesdug in behind me. In front of me I faced 8 tanks...More support-troops were coming in from the east(behind me)after 4 rounds. I was stuck in the trenches in the middle...The game was soon over when the tanks moved fast and overranmy positions. After most of my troops were dead my fellowspace marines gave good opposition and wiped out theattackers. It was not so fun to play with little options to alter the fate of mytroops. I learnt that I could have made better opposition if Ihad equipped all my troops with grenades.Better luck next time... :)

I have now painted som 15 mm medieval russians that willbecome my main battleforce. The fighting-unit will be themainforce when I will play the DBA-campaign: Mongol-terror in november. I am quite pleased with the result and the figures arealso verynicely detailed. Some soldiers remain to bepainted and a lot of cavalry until I am ready to play.More pictures are on its way to be published.

One week ago I searched my wardrobe and drawersfor bits to use for my ghosts. I am planning to buildup some sceneries containing old threes and gravestonesand others to make a "scary" feeling when I play with myghosts in WHFB and my vampire counts.I didn´t find any threes but I found a box from myearly years as a tabletop-player. The box contained28mm, 15mm and other figures in various scales.Mainly characters but also orcs and others that will beuseful.

During my recent trip to GothenburgI passed a fleemarket in the partof Haga. I found these two houses made of wood for only 20 SEK (about 2.30 Euro).I thonk that these will come realhandy when I start playing games inthe scale of 1:72

I made a trip to Gothenburg and paid a visit toa local museum. I found some interesstingthings to use in my project: Hugg och slag(cut and blow)The game will also allow the players to buyfantasy-creatures such as: dragons etc.The players will also be able to gain victory-points if they conquer strategical objectivessuch as : villages, bridges and strategic resources(cattle etc).

Rare units6 Cairn wraiths (300 p)The main reason to my devastating defeat was based on these factors:1. Bad knowledge in the rules of the game2. No knowledge about my enemy3. No knowledge about how to optimize the strength of my force.The summary of the game and playing against woodelves andthreemen: I made the wrong decision to battle first against his strongestmagical-troops instead of avoiding them and when I started my attack I was to slow when advancing.If I had a more detailed information about my enemy I would playedlike this:1. I would have bought fewer troops and more magic to my vampire countand necromancer.2. I would have attacked the archers first and advanced fast against these troopsand the regroup to meet the remaining stronger enemies.3. Not worried so much about the flying eagle because he was not so strong andduring the battle he never attacked me.Eventhough I lost big time I learnt to play right with my batswarms and spirithosts.I even managed to wipe out 3 of my opponents more deadly threemen. :)It was fun to play and I am looking forward to a new rematch in the near future.